Associations of Tobacco Use and Alcohol Drinking with Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer Risks among Men in Karunagappally, Kerala, India -Karunagappally Cohort Study

Padmavathy Amma Jayalekshmi, Athira Nandakumar, Suminori Akiba, Paleth Gangadharan and Chihaya Koriyama

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 8, 1-

Abstract: Background: From among a cohort of 65,553 men aged 30–84 in Karunagappally Taluk, Kerala, India, 52 hypopharyngeal cancer cases and 85 laryngeal cancer cases were identified by the Karunagappally Cancer Registry during the period between 1990 and 2009. Methods: We conduct Poisson regression analysis of grouped data, taking into account age and education. Results: This study showed that the incidence rates of cancers of the hypopharynx and the larynx were strongly related to the number of bidis smoked a day (P

Date: 2013
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